Abstract rule learning

Can infants learn abstract repition rules from different types of stimuli?

Cross-situational word learning

Infants and children s abilities to learn words across multiple ambiguous situations.

Familiar word recognition

Do infants distingusih familiar words from novel/rare words in listening tasks?

Function word segmentation

Recognition of familiarized function words from natural speech using behavioral methods.

Gaze following

Gaze following using standard multi-alternative forced-choice paradigms.

Infant directed speech preference

Looking times as a function of whether infant-directed vs. adult-directed speech is presented as stimulation.

Label advantage in concept learning

Infants' categorization judgments in the presence and absence of labels.

Mispronunciation sensitivity

Can infants distinguish correctly and mispronounced words, like dog and tog?

Mutual exclusivity

Bias to assume that a novel word refers to a novel object in forced-choice paradigms.

Natural speech preference

Do infants prefer natural speech over other types of sound?

Online word recognition

Online word recognition of familiar words using two-alternative forced choice preferential looking.

Phonotactic learning

Infants' ability to learn phonotactic generalizations from a short exposure.

Pointing and vocabulary (concurrent)

Concurrent correlations between pointing and vocabulary.

Pointing and vocabulary (longitudinal)

Longitudinal correlations between pointing and later vocabulary.

Sound symbolism

Bias to assume a non-arbitrary relationship between form and meaning ("bouba-kiki effect") in forced-choice paradigms.

Statistical sound category learning

Infants' ability to learn sound categories from their acoustic distribution.

Statistical word segmentation

Can infants segment words from artificial mini-languages based on syllable-level statistics?

Switch Task

Infant word learning in the switch task

Symbolic play

Is there a relationship between symbolic play and language development?

Vowel discrimination (native)

Discrimination of native-language vowels, including results from a variety of methods.

Vowel discrimination (non-native)

Discrimination of non-native vowels, including results from a variety of methods.

Word segmentation

Recognition of familiarized content or non-words from running, natural speech using behavioral methods.

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